Archive for the 'Reading, Writing, and Math' Category

Playing musical instruments may improve reading
Learning to play a musical instrument could help to improve children’s reading and their ability to listen in noisy classrooms, according to new research.
“Our eyes and ears take in millions of bits of information every second and it is not possible for the brain to process all of that, so [...]

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Rock Groups
Steven Strogatz has a great column in The New York times on arranging rocks (or any objects) in patterns to better visualize arithmetic.
I’ve been coming back to this particular column the past week and enjoying scanning and rescanning it. I’m still a mathaphobe but I do like patterns so thinking of arithmetic this way [...]

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Ten words you need to stop misspelling
The Oatmeal has a way with words, and diagrams. You can buy posters of this page here.

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Sony launches Amazon challenger
Sony has launched a wireless e-reader which allows users to download electronic books on the go.
Amazon Kindle, Sony e-Reader and no doubt Apple will have a product in this category soon. All of this is very good for those of us who have a hard time reading “traditional” books the traditional way.

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John Siracusa on reading in the digital age
This is a fantastic article because it covers the entire history of e-books, both as content and as devices. Very well thought out and written.
[via Daring Fireball]

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Reading Isn’t Fundamental
Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella have an excellent piece in Slate on how to help your child learn to read.

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Telescopic Text
Click away on the text. Expand the sentence. Have fun.

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Everyone Can Read

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keybr.com lets you test your speed and accuracy on the keyboard. I’m such a slow reader it kills my speed which is much better when I’m simply writing without the reading, like now.
[via kottke.org]

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Free Rice is a vocabulary game. For each word you get right they’ll donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
Dang, where the heck do they find all these words?!
[via Amy Mindell]

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